Ihate my Iphoney phone

Things I hate about my iPhone

1. No mail search
2. No safari password keychain
3. Bad Sound Quality !!!
4. No camera phone
5. Bad battery life
6. Lack of hardware keyboard
7. Camera needs to sync a motion detector
8. Why did it clone all my address book entries?

Great Expectations

You know you're Apple when your customers are shaking your fists and screaming, "Why did I pay all this money for a phone that is just pretty good, not wildly fantastic?" Unfortunately Apple has nobody to blame but itself, because the iPhone is HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS more expensive than most other phones -- or for that matter, any game console; its price point approaches that of a laptop. Because of this it is reasonable to expect the iPhone to be ABSOLUTELY AS GOOD AS ANY PHONE ON THE MARKET IN EVERY COMMON USE CASE and it is NOT.

1. Well, for one thing, the lack of camera phone is interfering with my ability to get laid: that is a pretty big downer.
2. The sound quality is INEXCUSABLE. Maybe the Apple team runs around with bluetooths in their ears all the time but I have to put my phone on speaker to hear anyone half the time which means, I either have no privacy or lossy sound quality.
3. The web browser does NOT support Flash and Java, two of the most aggressive tools for cutting edge applicaitons on the web. This is again, INEXCUSABLE. If you are going to shove the "Its a real web browser" line down the brains of the TV generation, STEP UP and make it so.
4. the touch screen keyboard does NOT compete with the slideout keys on Ocean phones. This probably doesn't belong in the rant column; some might disagree. but I really do miss the true keyboard and you could have really given me the option of an extenal jacked in keboard but NO you had do "reinvent the port" and provide no USB plugin to your iPhone. WHY, Apple, Why? 

It's not all suck.

I do find the email/map/web interaction to be pretty solid and have had my ass saved by it on numerous occasions. I recently lost my iPhone and went through some serious withdrawl (mainly driven by an incoming expected client call).

It's not just a phone .. kind of

The app store is fun. However honestly: I have a PS3, an X-Box, five computers, and a couple of girlfriends. My phone is not an entertainment platform -- I have those already. And I have no real need to disappear into the virtual world on my odd ventures to the outside reality. I consider that to be an antisocial trend that really does nobody any good. I understand why Apple is going into the game market, I get why people want phone games; I just think that life is too precious for me to go there. 

when I am using my phone for the most part for is business -- client calls, email, scheduling (is there a project management app on the iPhone? now THAT would be awesome. ) and an alarm clock. I am wondering if I should have gotten a Palm.

That being said, not having to haul around an iPod and a phone is a real pocket saver.

Apple, get it right, and get it right now. You should not need Steve Jobs to tell you this: and Mr. Jobs you don't need me to tell you this. Make your iPhone a GOOD phone. The high level features are fine, but they don't obviate the fact that the phone itself is limited enough to make me wonder whether or not I have just gotten sucked in on yet another transient marketing hump.